Seeder attachment for gang and sulky plows.



'H. KAREN.- SEEDEB ATTACHMENT FOR GANG AND SULKY FLOWS.

I -AYPLIOATION FILED NOV. 29, 1912. v Paiaented Apr. '7, 1914-.-

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UNITED STATES Persian @FFIQE.

HARRY HARDEN, OF LONDON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR. 0F ONE-HALF TO ROBERT LINCOLN FARRAR, OF LONDON, OHIO.

SEEDER ATTACHMENT FOR GANG AND SULKY FLOWS,

I 7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY HARDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at London, in. the county of Madison and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Seeder Attachment for Gang and Sulky Plows, of which the following is a specification.

The. invention relates to a seeder attachment for gang and sullry plows.

The object ofthe present invention is to provide asimple, efficient and comparatively inexpensive seeder attachment, adapted. to

I be readily applied to gang and sultry-plows,

and equipped with mechanism. capable of easy operation tolower the seeder to arrange the parts forplanting and also to elevate the seeder to raise the-soil engag.

ing devices clear of the ground.

A further object of the invention is to provide means adapted to yieldably hold the soil engaging devices in the ground, and capable of permitting-the same should they encounter a small stump,'rock or other obstruction of being thrown upwardly by the same without injuring the machine;

A With these and otherobjects inview, the invention consistsin the construction and described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit orsacrr ficing any' of the advantages of the 1nvention. v In the drawings :-Figurel is a side ele vation of a seeder attachment, constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 18 'a l ongitudinal sectional .view, the rear carrying or supporting wheel being swung rear-' wardly and upwardly to lower the seeder disks and the harrow'into the ground. 4 is an enlarged transverse sectional View on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view, illustrating the manner of Il1(llllll1l1lg the bell crank member, which raises and lowers the front of the seeder Fig. 6 is a' detail view showing the longitidinal connecting rod pivoted to the stem ofitlne caster wheels at a point below thdseeder ffinne. Fig. 7 is a detail sectional Specification of Letters Iateut.

Application filed November 29, 1912.. Serial No. 734,220.

Patented Ai r. v, 1914.

1. Fig. 8 is a illustrating the conterminals of the inclined frame or support.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in allthe figures of the drawings. I In the accompanying drawings in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, 1 designates a trailing seeder frame preferably constructed of metal and composed ofside bars having spaced front and Intermediate portions and provided with converging rear portions 2, forming a tapered rear portion to the frame and connected adjacent to their rear terminals by abolt 2*, which is adapted to draw the said rear terminals together. The intermediate portions of the side bars are arranged in parallelism and are connected by spaced; front and rear transversebars 3 and 4, bolted or otherwise secured to inwardly extending terminals 5 of attaching bars or members 6, which are secured to the inner faces of the said intermediate portions ofthe side bars.

The transverse" connecting bars of the seeder frame support a seed box 7 and the discharge of the seed to a transverse series of seed spouts 8 is controlled by suitable seed dropping mechanism 9, which is connected by beveled gearing 10 with parallel transverse shafts ll jonrnaled in suitable bearings at the sides of the seeder frame. The transverse shafts 11 extend from one sideof the seeder frame and have keyed or otherwise secured to themspur gears 12,

which mesh with a central spur gear 13,

mounted on a stud shaft 14 and connected with a sprocket gear 15. The sprocket gear 15 meshes with a sprocket chain 16, which extends downwardly-to a lower sprocket gear 17, mounted on the axle 18, which carries a series of disks 19. The axle is journaled in suitable bearings of approximately i-shaped standards 20, secured to and depending from the seeder frame at opposite sides of the intermediate portion thereof.

"When the seeder frame is lowered by the means hereinafter described to permit the disks .to penetrate the soil, their rotary movement is communicated to and actuates the seed dropping mechanism. As the seed dropping mechanism does not constitute a portion of the present invention and as any seed dropping mechanism may be employed,

specific illustration and description thereof are deemed unnecessary.

Connected with and depending from the rear transverse connecting bar t of the seeder frame is a series of scrapers 21, each consisting of a pair of vertically disposed spaced bars or members secured at their upper ends to the side faces of approximately L-shaped brackets 22, consisting of rear upwardly projecting eyes 23 and forwardly extending horizontal arms or portions. The eyes 23 are preferably bolted or otherwise secured to the rear face of the rear transverse bar but they may be secured to the seeder frame in any other desired manner. The horizontal portions or arms extend forwardly beneath the rear transverse bar and support the scraper bars or members.

The machine is also equipped with a harrow provided with an approximately U shaped frame 24 composed of a transverse tooth supporting bar and forwardly extending sides or arms 25, which are connected at their front ends to the V-shaped standards by suitable pivots 26. The teeth 2'7 of the harrow are suitably secured at their upper ends to the transverse tooth supporting bar or portion of the harrow frame, whichis adapted to swing upwardly and downwardly, the downward movement being limited by lugs or projections 28, extending from the sides or arms of the barrow frame and arranged to abut against the V-shaped standards. By limiting the relativedownward movement of the harrovv, the latter is prevented from dropping too low and is adapted to be lifted out of the ground by the seeder attachment when the same is raised. When the harrow teeth are at the limit of their downward movement,' their lower nds ul' points are preferably arranged in the same plane as the lower edges of the disks.

Pivoted to the end of the tapered portion of the frame by a horizontal bolt 29, or other suitable fastening device is a bearing 80 preferably consisting of a split collar having forwardly extending terminals 31 embracing the rear end of the seeder frame and pierced by the horizontal pi ot 29. The

hearing receives an upper rounded portion or stem 32 of a forked standard 33 in which is mounted a rear supporting caster wheel 34-, adapted to be carried by the oscillation of the standard to a position beneath the rear portion of the seeder frame, as illustrated in Fig. l of the drawings, to support the disks and harrow teeth above the surface of the ground and capable of being swung rcarwardly and upwardly to a position above the surface of thegroul'id to permit the soil engaging devices to penetrate the ground. The rear supporting wheel may meanest also be ia djusted to. run upon the ground and limit the penetration of the soil engaging devices.

The standard is equippi with upper and lower ears 35 and 36, located above and be low the seederframe. The upper car 35 is formed integral with a collar 37 arranged on the upper portion 32 of the standard and spaced from the bearing collar 30 by a sleeve 38 and retained in place by a transverse pin or key 39. The standard is ada ted to be pivoted above the frame by a olt 40 or other suitable fastening device to the rear end of a longitudinal connecting bar 41, as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, or it may be connected below the frame to the lower car 36, and if desired a standard 42 having only a lower integral car 43 may be employed, as illustrated in Fig. 6 of the drawings. When the longiiiidinal connecting bar is pivoted to the upper car, it is bent slightly to arrange it clear of the'secd box and the seed dropping mechanism, and its front end is pivoted by a bolt 44. to a central depending arm 45 of a transverse rock-shaft 46, journaled in transversely alined openings 47 of bearing plates 48, secured to and projecting rearwardly from an inclined frame or suppoitdfi). The inclined frame or support, which projects laterally and rear-.

wardly from the front"pl'o\v frame 50, is composed of sides and a rear transverse connecting portion. The bearing plates 48 are secured to the outer faces of the sides of the inclined connecting frame or support and the front terminals of the sides of the latter form attaching p'ortions'5l and 52, and are bolted or otherwise-secured to the. plow frame 50, which in practice may constitute the frame of either a gang'or sulky plow, the seeder attachment being adapted to be applied to either. The enlarged terminal attaching portion 51 is provid'edwithupper and lower flanges 51, arranged at the upper and lower edges of the adjacent portion of the plow frame 50, as clearly illustrated'in Fig-8 of the drawings. The-attaching terminal 52 of the inclined frame or support 49 is provided with an integral upwardly projecting portion having a horizontally disposed eye 53, designed to receive the lifting rod 54 of the plow.

otherwise secured to the transverse shaft 46. The arm 56 is provided at an interme- I diate-point with a perforation 56, adapted to receive a connecting rod when'th'elatter is pivoted to the lowereye 36 of the standard. The. arms 55 are pivoted at an intermediate point by bolts 57 to the front terminals of the sides of theseeder frame, the side barsof the seeder frame projecting in advance of the seed box to form relatively rigid forwardly extending arms 58, which are inwardly bent and arranged in'parallelism, as clearly illustrated: in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The bell crank member is controlled by an operating lever 59, extending upwardly from and pivotally mounted at its lower end on the plow frame 50 and adapted when moved rearwardly to swing the pivoted standard rearwardly and upwardly andwto lower simultaneously the front portion of the seeder frame, the relative downward movement of the seeder frame and the arms 55 beinglimited by lugsy60, extending laterally from the rear ends of the arms 55 and arranged to engage the upper edges of the sides of the seeder frame to form a rigid or stiff connection to enable the weight of the plow to be thrown on the seeder frame. The simultaneous downward movement of the seeder frame and-the upward movement of the rear supporting wheel lower the disks 1 andhthe harrow frame to the ground and -The operating lever 35 I connectin rod 62, which has its rear portion slida ly mountedin a substantially ob-,

permit the disks and the harrow teeth to penetrate the soil. Y

connectedby a pivot 61 to the frontend of a longitudinal longconnecting'member 63, composed of spaced sides and front and rear connecting portions (Stand 65, having longitudinally alined perforations through which the rear portion of the connectingfrod 62 passes.

The connecting rod is provided at its rear portion with a-fixed collar or stop 66, and

its rear end 67 is threaded for the reception of a nut-68, which isarranged at the rear face of the rear tTfiIlSVsi'SG portion 65. A coiledspringfiil, which is disposed on the rear portion of theconnecting rod 62,-is intel-posed between the rear transverse portion 65 and the collar or stop 66 and opera tes to yicl-dably maintain the soil engaging de vices in the soil and is adapted to permit the Ba-me to be thrown upwardly without ini jury to the machine should they come in contact t with a rockor other obstruction. when the operating lever-1s. pulled. forl I liivardly to swing the caster wheel beneath lthe rear end of the seeder frame and to ele wate the frontportion thereof, the nut 68 engages the rear transverse connecting portion and forms-a rigidconncctio-n between the operating lever and the bell crank member. The operating lever is equipped with a spring actuated dog or detent-7O controlled by a latch lever and arranged to engage a toothed segment- 71, which is mount,- ed onthe plow frame 50 at one side thereof.

.The toothed segment 71 has a lower attaclr ing' portion 72 provided with spaced inwardly extending upper and lower flanges 73, fitting against and embracing the upper and lower edges of the adjacent side of the plow frame and retained in engagement with the same by a clip plate 74 and bolts 7 The clip plate 74 fits against the inner face of the plow frame and the bolts 75,9which ooiiperate with the clip plate to form a clamp for securing the toothed segment to the plow frame, pierce the upper ends of the clip plate and the lower attaching portion of the toothed segment. In the accompanying drawings the frame 49 is shown extending downwardly and laterally front the left hand side of the plow frame, but it may extend from either side thereof and provide lower the front end of the former, means for connecting the supporting wheel with the said mechanism for swinging the supporting wheel upwardly and downwardly snnultaneously withthe lowerlug and raising of the front end of the trailing frame and operatingmeans for the said mechanism mounted on the front frame. 2. In an attachment of the class described,

the combination with a front plow frame,

and a trailing frame adapted to support seed dropping mechanism, of a standard piv otally connected to the rear portion of the trailing frame, a wheel mounted on the standard, mechanism connected. with the said frames and with the standardv for raising and lowering the front end of the trailing frame and for siriiultaneously swinging the standard downwardly and upwardly and opcrating means for the said mechanism mounted on thefront frame.

3. In an attaclmicnt of the class described, the combination with. a front plow frame, anda trailing frame, of a standard pivotallyoonncctcd with the rear portion of the trailingtframe, mechanism connected with the front frame and with the front portion of the trailinggframe for raising and lowering the front cnllkif the latter and including an oscillatory arm, itconnecting bar extending from the arm to thost:rndard for swinging. the latter upwardly and downwardly simultaneously with the lowering and raising of the front end of the trailing frame,

and operating means forthe said mechanism mounted on the front frame.

l. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front plow frame, and a trailing frame adapted to support seed dropping mechanism, of a supporting wheel pivotall connected with the rear portion of the trai in frame, a bell crank member con nected wit the front frame-and with the front portion of the trailing frame for raising and lowering the front end of the latter, means mounted on the plow frame for operating the bell crank member, and means for connecting the supporting wheel with the bell crank member for swinging the said wheel simultaneously with the raising and lowering of the front end of the trailing frame.

5. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front plow frame, and a trailing frame, of a lever member having an arm and connected with the front portion of the trailing frame and arranged to raise and lower the front end of the same, supporting means for the rear portion of the V -trailing frame connected with and actuated by the lever member for raising and lowering the rear end of the said trailing frame simultaneously with the front end, and operating 'mechanism mounted on the front frame and connected with the lever member for oscillating the same.

6. In an attachment of the class described,

the combination with a front plow frame,

and a trailing frame, of a bell crank mom bcr connected with the front frame and comprising a'rearwardly extending arm pivotally connected with the trailing frame at the front portion thereof, and an upwardly extending arm arranged at an angle to. the rearwardly extending arm, supporting means for the rear portion of the trailing frame connected with and actuated by the bell crank member for raising and lowering the rear end of the said trailing frame simultaneoi'isly with the front end, and an operating lever on the front frame connected with and adapted to operate the bell crank member for raising and lowering the front end of the trailing frame.

7. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front frame, and a trailing frame, of mechanism connected with thefront frame and including an oscillatory arm pivoted at an intermediate point to the trailing frame and arranged to raise and lower the front end of the same and provided with means located behind the pivotal point and arranged to limit the relative movement of the arm and the trailing frame to form a stiff connection.

masses the combination'with a front frame, and a trailing frame, of mechanism carried by the,

front frame and including "an oscillatory arm pivoted at an intermediate point'to the trailing frame and arranged to raise and lower the front end of the same and provided with a terminal lug arranged to engage the-trailing frame to limit the relative movement of the same and the said arm.

9; In an attachment of the class described, the ombination with a front frame, and a trailing frame, of mechanism carried by the front frame and including a transverse rock shaft, spaced arms extending rearwardly' from therock shaft and connected with the trailing frame at opposite sides thereof for raising and lowering the same, an arm ex tendin upwardly from the rock shaft at an angle to the said arms, supporting means for the rear portion of the trailing fram connected with. and actuated by the said mechanism for raising and lowering tl d rear end of the trailin frame simultaneously with the front endt ereof, and an operating lever mounted on the front frame and com nected with the said upwardly extending arm.

10. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front frame. and atrailing frame, of mechanism carried by the front frame and including a rock shaft, spaced arms extending rearwardly from the rock shaft and pivoted to the trailing frame at opposite sides thereof and provided with means for engaging the said trailing frame for limiting the relative movement of the same and the arms, an arm extending upwardly from the rock shaft, an operating lever mounted on the front frame, and means for connecting the operating lever with the said upwardly extending arm, said means being provided with a spring arranged to yield-ably hold the rearwardly extending arms againstupward movement.

11. In an, attachment of the class described, the combination with a front frame, and a trailing frame, of mechanism carried by the front frame and including a rock shaft, spaced arms extending rearwardly from the rock shaft and pivoted to the trailing frame at opposite sides thereof and mo vided with means for engaging the trailing frame for limiting the relative movement of the same and the said arms, an arm extending upwardly from the rock shaft, an operating lever mounted on the front frame, and means for connecting the operating lever with the upwardly extending arm, said means comprising a rod extending rearwardly from the lever, a connecting lever slidably receiving the rod,.means mounted on the rod and arranged to engage the connecting member in the forward movement of the lever to form a solid connection, and a 8. In an attachment of: the class described, 1 spring mounted on the rod to engage the connecting member to yicldahly hold the same against movement.

12. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front frame, and a'trailing frame, of mechanism carried by the front frame and including a roclc shaft, spaced arms extending rearwardly from the rock shaft and pivoted'to the trailing frame at opposite sides thereof and provided witlrm eans for engaging the trailing frame for limiting the relative movement of the same and the said arms, an arm extending upwardly from the rock shaft, an operating lever mounted on. the front frame, and means for connecting the operating lever with the upwardly extending arm, said means comprising a substantially oblong member having spaced sides and connecting front and rear portions, a rod slidable through the connecting portions and provided with means for engaging the. rear connecting portion and having a stop located in advance of the said rear portion, and a coiled spring interposed between the stop and the rear connecting portion.

13. In an attachment of the class de-- scribed, the combination with a front frame, and a trailing frame, of a support fixed to the front frame and extemling rearwardly and laterally therefrom, a hell crank member mounted on the support and having an arm connected with the front portion of the trailing frame, and an operating device mounted on the front frame and connected with the hell crank member, and supporting means for the rear end of the trailing frame connected with and actuated by the said mechanism for raising and lowering the rear end of the trailing frame simultaneously with the front end thereof.

14. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front frame, and a trailing frame, of a support rigid with and extending rcarwardly from the front frame and composed of a transverse portion and forwardly extending sides having terminal attaching portions secured to the front frame, bearings carried by the rear portion of the support, a rock shaft mounted in the bearings and provided with arms connected with the trailing frame, and an operating lever mounted on the front frame and connected with and adapted to actuate the rock shaft.

15. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front .frame, and a trailing frame, I a support extending from the rear portion of the front frame and provided with bearings, a bell crank member including a rock shaft journaled in the said bearings, and arms extending from the rock shaft and pivotally connected with the front portion of the trailing frame, a supporting wheel pivotally connected with the rear portion of the trailing frame, connections be tween the supporting wheel and the rock shaft, and means mounted on the front frame and connected'with the rock shaft for actuating the same.

16. In an attachment of the class described, the combination with a front plow frame, and a trailing frame, of a bearing pivoted to the rear portion of the trailing frame, a standard having a stem jonrnaled in the bearing, a wheel mounted on the standard, mechanism carried by the front frame and connected withthe front portion of the trailing frame for raising and lowering the front end of the same, said mechanism including operating means mounted on the plow frame and means for connecting t e *andard with the said, mechanism to oscillate the standard simultaneously with the raising and lowering of the trailing frame.

17. In an. attachment of the class described, the combine, ion with a front frame, and a trailing frame, of a hearing pivotally connected with the rear portion of the trail ing frame, a standard having a stem journaled in the beaiiras said standard being provided with upper and lower eyes, mechanism carried by the front frame and connected. with the front portion of thetrailing frame forraising and lowering the front end of the same, and means actuated by the said mechanism and pivoted to one of the eyes of the standard for oscillating the latter.

In. testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto ailixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY I-IARDEN. l-Vitnesses Dona E. Bnonrn, HARRY I. Fnnvnn. 

